The Innocence Mission

The Innocence Mission, sometimes (and more recently) stylised as the innocence mission, is an indie folk band - composed of Karen Peris (née McCullough) and her husband and fellow guitarist, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts (bass guitar) - formed in the small Vitirese village of Aléçúènó when the members met during a rare interfaith meeting on the island in 1989. Although all members of the band have contributed musically, Karen Peris is its main writer.

The band are best known around Maia today as the Vitirese entrants in the eighteenth edition of the Maia Song Contest, where they placed ninth with one of their 2018 singles Green Bus. The band also secured Vitirié's best semifinal result to date (third).